Machine Learning Jobs in England

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 121 109
Rank change year-on-year +66 -12 -56
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 2,219 2,036 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.57% 2.29% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 2.72% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 545 1,528 1,331
10th Percentile £45,500 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £56,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £97,528 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £129,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -5.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,650 74,784 82,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.04% 84.16% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,641 54,521 49,313
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,334
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in England.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +4 591 £88,750 +4.41% 1,560
South East +86 478 £65,000 - 194
North of England +137 468 £63,250 +15.00% 228
Midlands +115 380 £58,750 +2.17% 105
North West +97 295 £62,500 +13.64% 150
East Midlands +126 218 £65,000 +36.84% 35
West Midlands +64 160 £47,500 -17.39% 67
Yorkshire +112 150 £64,000 +16.36% 56
South West +32 118 £61,954 -3.78% 98
East of England +12 69 £66,254 -1.85% 160
North East +55 23 £62,500 +31.58% 22
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 101 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.26%) Apache
4 24 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 14 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.23%) Confluence
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.090%) Luigi
8 2 (0.090%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.45%) Maya
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.23%) Blender
5 5 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
6 4 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.090%) Simulink
8 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.045%) Sketch
8 1 (0.045%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.045%) SPSS
8 1 (0.045%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.14%) Adaptiv
2 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.090%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.045%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.045%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.045%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.045%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 713 (32.13%) Azure
2 677 (30.51%) AWS
3 546 (24.61%) GCP
4 263 (11.85%) Serverless
5 239 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
6 90 (4.06%) Power Platform
7 39 (1.76%) Amazon S3
8 37 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 36 (1.62%) Azure Machine Learning
9 36 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 33 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
10 33 (1.49%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.44%) SaaS
12 28 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (1.17%) GitHub
14 23 (1.04%) dbt
15 21 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (0.90%) Azure AI
17 19 (0.86%) Vertex AI
18 18 (0.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 215 (9.69%) Broadband
2 16 (0.72%) HTTP
3 11 (0.50%) VPN
4 10 (0.45%) Internet
5 8 (0.36%) Firewall
6 7 (0.32%) DNS
7 4 (0.18%) DHCP
7 4 (0.18%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (0.18%) SAN
7 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.18%) WAN
8 2 (0.090%) MQTT
8 2 (0.090%) NAS
8 2 (0.090%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.090%) Skype
8 2 (0.090%) VLAN
9 1 (0.045%) BGP
9 1 (0.045%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.045%) Network Security
9 1 (0.045%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (4.87%) Big Data
2 90 (4.06%) Power BI
3 78 (3.52%) Data Lake
4 71 (3.20%) NoSQL
5 69 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
6 50 (2.25%) Tableau
7 42 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 40 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (1.67%) Hadoop
10 30 (1.35%) Data Mining
11 26 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (1.17%) Metadata
12 25 (1.13%) MySQL
13 24 (1.08%) SQL Server
14 21 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (0.77%) MongoDB
17 15 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
18 11 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 79 (3.56%) Git
2 29 (1.31%) GitLab
3 23 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.95%) JIRA
5 19 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 18 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (0.63%) MLflow
8 11 (0.50%) Selenium
9 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.32%) SoapUI
10 7 (0.32%) Vite
11 5 (0.23%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.18%) Postman
12 4 (0.18%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.14%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.14%) RStudio
14 2 (0.090%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.090%) webpack
General
1 809 (36.46%) Retail
2 785 (35.38%) Manufacturing
3 469 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
4 337 (15.19%) Finance
5 324 (14.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 311 (14.02%) Social Skills
7 219 (9.87%) Law
8 196 (8.83%) Dutch Language
8 196 (8.83%) Finnish Language
8 196 (8.83%) Norwegian Language
9 97 (4.37%) Banking
10 94 (4.24%) Marketing
11 54 (2.43%) Games
12 49 (2.21%) Catalan Language
13 46 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.89%) Legal
15 38 (1.71%) Public Sector
16 29 (1.31%) Advertising
17 24 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 749 (33.75%) Trainer
2 663 (29.88%) Senior
3 306 (13.79%) Software Engineer
4 237 (10.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 231 (10.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 189 (8.52%) Lead
7 157 (7.08%) Data Scientist
8 75 (3.38%) Architect
9 73 (3.29%) Senior Data Scientist
10 71 (3.20%) Data Engineer
11 57 (2.57%) Developer
12 42 (1.89%) Python Engineer
13 39 (1.76%) Analyst
14 36 (1.62%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (1.22%) Data Analytics Director
15 27 (1.22%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (1.22%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (1.13%) DevOps Engineer
17 24 (1.08%) Product Manager
18 23 (1.04%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (10.09%) Node.js
2 218 (9.82%) .NET
3 92 (4.15%) PyTorch
4 89 (4.01%) TensorFlow
5 82 (3.70%) HTML
6 73 (3.29%) React
7 69 (3.11%) Kafka
8 62 (2.79%) scikit-learn
9 48 (2.16%) Pandas
9 48 (2.16%) REST
10 44 (1.98%) NumPy
11 38 (1.71%) PySpark
12 33 (1.49%) RESTful
13 31 (1.40%) CSS
14 25 (1.13%) OpenCV
15 24 (1.08%) SciPy
16 19 (0.86%) AngularJS
17 18 (0.81%) Keras
18 17 (0.77%) Hugging Face
18 17 (0.77%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 805 (36.28%) Robotics
2 405 (18.25%) Self-Motivation
3 230 (10.37%) Algorithms
4 224 (10.09%) Cyberattack
5 181 (8.16%) Linux Command Line
6 58 (2.61%) Cloud Native
7 41 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 34 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 34 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.35%) FMCG
10 27 (1.22%) Product Ownership
11 25 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (1.13%) IoT
12 24 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 20 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (0.81%) Credit Risk
16 16 (0.72%) Blockchain
16 16 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 220 (9.91%) Linux
2 30 (1.35%) Windows
3 15 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.27%) Android
5 5 (0.23%) Mac OS X
5 5 (0.23%) Unix
6 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.14%) Debian
7 3 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.14%) VMS
8 2 (0.090%) CentOS
8 2 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,498 (67.51%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,279 (57.64%) Problem-Solving
3 906 (40.83%) LLM
4 862 (38.85%) Generative AI
5 735 (33.12%) Red Team
6 704 (31.73%) Agile
7 660 (29.74%) Data Science
8 617 (27.81%) Data Privacy
9 525 (23.66%) Mentoring
10 436 (19.65%) Analytics
11 413 (18.61%) Software Engineering
12 411 (18.52%) CI/CD
13 350 (15.77%) Data Engineering
14 274 (12.35%) Computer Science
15 242 (10.91%) User Experience
16 240 (10.82%) Microservices
17 233 (10.50%) Performance Metrics
18 231 (10.41%) Clean Code
19 230 (10.37%) Personalization
20 229 (10.32%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,008 (45.43%) Python
2 346 (15.59%) Java
3 329 (14.83%) SQL
4 328 (14.78%) JavaScript
5 310 (13.97%) TypeScript
6 290 (13.07%) C++
7 234 (10.55%) Rust
8 194 (8.74%) Go
9 111 (5.00%) R
10 107 (4.82%) C#
11 73 (3.29%) MATLAB
12 68 (3.06%) C
13 60 (2.70%) PHP
14 49 (2.21%) Dart
14 49 (2.21%) Ruby
15 45 (2.03%) Scala
16 19 (0.86%) Bash
16 19 (0.86%) PowerShell
17 11 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,352 (60.93%) Degree
2 311 (14.02%) PhD
3 285 (12.84%) Security Cleared
4 253 (11.40%) DV Cleared
5 203 (9.15%) AWS Certification
6 186 (8.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 181 (8.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 142 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 109 (4.91%) Master's Degree
10 33 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.44%) SC Cleared
12 29 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
13 13 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.36%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.32%) PMP
16 5 (0.23%) CFA
16 5 (0.23%) MBA
17 4 (0.18%) Postgraduate
18 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
18 3 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (2.84%) Data Quality
2 51 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 47 (2.12%) GDPR
4 26 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 26 (1.17%) QA
5 17 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.32%) NIST
8 6 (0.27%) IFRS
8 6 (0.27%) IFRS 9
9 5 (0.23%) GMP
9 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.14%) GxP
12 2 (0.090%) SLA
12 2 (0.090%) WCAG
13 1 (0.045%) COBIT
13 1 (0.045%) MiFID
System Software
1 158 (7.12%) Docker
2 12 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.36%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.27%) Apache Flume
6 4 (0.18%) HDFS
6 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) LXC
7 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 148 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.06%) Terraform
3 36 (1.62%) Ansible
4 13 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.50%) Grafana
6 6 (0.27%) Oozie
7 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.18%) Kibana
8 4 (0.18%) SCOM
9 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.090%) Argo
10 2 (0.090%) logstash
10 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.090%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.090%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.090%) Puppet
10 2 (0.090%) SCCM
10 2 (0.090%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.090%) SCSM
Vendors
1 867 (39.07%) Databricks
2 836 (37.67%) Google
3 742 (33.44%) Adobe
4 128 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 47 (2.12%) OpenAI
6 33 (1.49%) SAP
7 19 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 16 (0.72%) Apple
8 16 (0.72%) Oracle
9 12 (0.54%) Palantir
9 12 (0.54%) VMware
9 12 (0.54%) Workday
10 10 (0.45%) Informatica
10 10 (0.45%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.41%) Splunk
12 8 (0.36%) IBM
13 6 (0.27%) Foundry
13 6 (0.27%) PayPal
14 5 (0.23%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.23%) Murex